"All along the waterfront: Bardavon/UPAC brings Dylan and new concert venue to the Rondouthttps://hudsonvalleyone.com/2017/03/23/ ... e-rondout/Bob Dylan spent the late ’60s trying to keep a low profile in Woodstock. Forty years later he used Poughkeepsie’s historic Bardavon Opera House as a secret rehearsal space. Now, the music legend and newly minted Nobel laureate is putting his talent on public display in the Hudson Valley with a groundbreaking concert at a new music venue on the Kingston waterfront.

The June 24 show at the old Hutton Brickyard on North Street will mark the debut of the site as a music venue managed by the Bardavon 1869 Opera House. The company, which also owns Kingston’s Ulster Performing Arts Center, will act as promoter and organizer for the event.

The former brickyard was acquired by California-based developer MWest Holdings which has reinvented the site as an event space. Last summer thousands flocked to the weekend food and crafts festival Smorgasburg. The success of Smorgasburg, Bardavon Executive Director Chris Silva said, inspired him to begin exploring the venues potential for live music. After getting approval from MWest, Silva said, he began seeking a big act for the venue’s debut. With a 3,500 seat capacity, the open-air but roofed brickyard venue dwarfs the 1,500-seat UPAC and 944-seat Bardavon and can accommodate a larger crowd than Poughkeepsie’s 3,000-seat Mid-Hudson Civic Center.

“It’s opening doors for us,” said Silva. “We’re having conversations about acts that we were not having before because we were just not big enough.”

Silva’s relationship with Dylan and his management team dates back to 2005 when the music legend used the Bardavon as a practice space while recording his Modern Times album. Dylan returned in 2006 and 2011 to rehearse his band in preparation for touring. In each instance, Silva said, Bardavon staff kept the notoriously private singer-songwriter’s presence a well-guarded secret building trust that paid off when Dylan agreed to add the brickyard to an already packed summer tour schedule. Silva said he also appealed to the history buff in Dylan by sending then and now pictures of brickyard which was a mainstay of the Kingston waterfront dating back to the 19th century.

Bob likes to play new venues, he likes history and God knows he has roots in the Hudson Valley,” said Silva. “It just all came together perfectly for us.”

Representatives of MWest Holdings said that they hoped the concert would be a highlight of the second season at the venue. In addition to Dylan’s concert, the summer will see the return of Smorgasburg which will kick off on May 20 and 21 and run one weekend a month at the site through October. MWest President Karl Slovin stated in a press release that the 2017 season at the brickyard was “rapidly evolving” with the company forging relationships with top tier caterers, wedding planners and event coordinators.

“With the brickyards we are custodians of the, and stewards of the future,” Slovin stated. “And the future at the Hutton Brickyards is going to be a lot of fun — and quite special.”

On Wednesday, the Daily Freeman reported that MWest has yet to be granted a permit to hold concerts at the site. The story stated the matter will be taken up by the city planning board at its April or May meeting."

Is anyone familiar with the Hutton Brickyards (attended the Smorgasburgs held there last year?)

After missing out on getting tickets to the first show, I was delighted to see them add a second one. When was ordering tickets I found: “We have run out of inventory for item: Hutton Brickyards Parking: Bob Dylan - Standard Admission Ticket”

Does that mean the venue parking lot is FULL? If so, where does one park? From Google Maps, it appears the place is in the middle of nowhere! On Sunday, I sent this inquiry to them via their site: https://www.huttonbrickyards.com/contact/ but haven’t received a reply. Yesterday I called the only telephone number I could find and it’s the holding company in California. She had no idea and suggested I wait for an email reply.

I hope to go to a Smorgasburg (their spelling not mine) in May to check out the venue. I was able to get a parking pass for the 6/24 concert. They recommend car pooling. We should communicate on E/R to plan how to best do that.

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Does anyone know what the early entry ticket to the Port Chester shows really means? What time is entry? Have emailed the Capitol but had no reply. Will try calling them today but if anyone knows how it works..... Thanks!

Yeah, mayor & city planning board are contradicting each other too. Should be fun show. That's a great location at the historic Hutton brick company on the Hudson River near Catskills, Big Pink/ West Saugerties,Woodstock, Overlook mountain,Bearsville& the jolly cowetc

Does anyone know what the early entry ticket to the Port Chester shows really means? What time is entry? Have emailed the Capitol but had no reply. Will try calling them today but if anyone knows how it works..... Thanks!

OK...but don't quote me on this:

Early entry means you pay more to get entry to General Admission, before the regular price G.A. ticket holders. (Regular G.A. entry I think is 7:00 ?).....thereby getting a much better chance of standing closer to The Bob.

I did not see a posted time for early entrants to this event, but did see a warning that said something along the lines of.....if you are late for early entry, you will not be afforded early entry....that is, if you arrive 5 minutes after early entry, yet 30 minutes before regular entry, you will have to wait until the regular entry time.

I have to imagine that a definite " early entry" time would be provided by the venue on, or close to the date of the show.

I have also been checking out these tickets because if me and the mrs. are going to any of these run of shows, these would be the shows.....but we haven't purchased yet.....anyway....they seem to be offering only these early entry tickets for Port Chester 1.....that was last week...

We're very happy to announce that additional on-site parking spots have become available at the Hutton Brickyards in Kingston NY where Bob Dylan will be performing Friday June 23rd & Saturday June 24th! Parking spots are $20 a carload for ticket holders (carpooling is encouraged).

These convenient onsite parking spots are just a 5 minute walk to your seat at the show..

If you would like to purchase a parking pass please stop by one of our Box Offices at the Bardavon in Poughkeepsie NY or the Ulster Performing Arts Center in Kingston NY - or call 845-473-2072 for Bardavon or 845-339-6088 for UPAC.

We're happy to offer these spots to you now, but don't delay because at the end of the month we will release the parking spots to Ticketmaster where additional fees may apply..'

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